Creatures

Famous quotes containing the word creatures:

    We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self- will, more than of reason or even of self-interest.... Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.
    William Hazlitt (1778–1830)

    O curse of marriage,
    That we can call these delicate creatures ours
    And not their appetites!
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    ‘Whoever it is that leaves him out so late,
    When other creatures have gone to stall and bine,
    Ought to be told to come and take him in.’
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)